I gave up on Epson colour printers after an unhappy experience. Then I gave up on HP ditto.
I've been using a Canon Pixma IP4000 for some years, but it isn't ideal. If I don't print something on it every day, it will clog and waste a lot of ink cleaning itself.
It does have the great advantage that the cartridges don't have chips in - they are a lot cheaper, and good quality clone ones are cheap.
Last year it refused to print magenta at all, so I removed the ink carrier/nozzle assembly and cleaned it thoroughly with isopropanol and distilled water. That fixed it - but not for long. It did the same again a few weeks later. I discovered that one can buy a carrier/nozzle thingy for about half the price of a new printer: that fixed it for another three months.
It's started to refuse to print properly on glossy paper now, so I'm in the same boat as P.Pilcher. I get fed up with changing ink cartridges that have a tiny amount of ink in them. I refuse to buy a machine with chips in the inks to force me to use their ransom-priced cartridges.
I'm waiting for someone to produce a printer that has good quality, big ink tanks, and "just works". Daughter tells me it's called a colour laser - but the price of toner cartridges for those is scary, and I don't know if they behave any better.
Alongside the colour printer is a prehistoric HP B&W laser that just works. It does over 90% of my printing, and a toner cartridge lasts years, at £29 a piece.